A local company is going to give the Village of Oxford a gift worth $50,000 and all the community has to do in return is be a test site for one of its new products. On Tuesday night, the village council voted 5-0 to accept the Oxford-based Relume Technologies? offer to install its new Sentinel […]
Only the best of the best get inducted into a hall of fame for what they’ve accomplished in their profession. Jeff Bryant must be on his way to legendary status as he made it into his second hall of fame in two years. On Saturday, the 46-year-old Oxford resident was inducted into the International Karate […]
Students from Lawrence Technological University visited the Upland Hills Ecological Awareness Center in Addison Township Saturday to begin studying how well alternative energy sources, working in conjunction with unique architectural features, power and heat the building constructed in the 1970s. ‘We’re trying to analyze the efficiency of efficient buildings,? said LTU senior Steve Gillette, who’s […]
It’s safe to say that almost every great invention throughout the course of human history was first conceived in that limitless womb of ideas and theories known simply as the imagination. Over the weekend, three teams of Oxford Elementary fifth-graders demonstrated how their imaginations could someday help solve the world’s problems by participating in the […]
Fourth-grader Micah Dymond is quickly becoming the resident authority on butterflies at Oxford Elementary. The student is heading up a project studying everything there is to know about monarch butterflies. ‘Because of Micah, the whole class has become experts on monarch butterflies and their migration,? said her teacher Mary Kraniak. ‘You ask anyone in my […]
Oxford resident Marsha Katona is on a mission to make everyone aware of great resource that unfortunately doesn’t get much publicity. It’s called the Oakland County Library for the Visually and Physically Impaired and she’s been using it for about 40 years now. ‘They have everything,? said Katona, who’s been legally blind since birth. ‘I […]
Oxford Middle School was full of people kicking, punching and screaming Saturday, but nobody got suspended or even arrested for their behavior. That’s because it was all part of the 2010 Michigan Sport Karate Open. A total of 249 competitors, representing about 20-25 schools, participated in the martial arts tournament. ‘We had people coming up […]
John F. Kennedy, Orville Wright, Betsy Ross, John Wayne, Albert Einstein and Ulysses S. Grant were among the special visitors to Clear Lake Elementary last week. The school’s cafeteria was transformed into a ‘living wax museum? as fourth-graders in Melanie Royster’s class portrayed famous people ranging from historical figures to modern day sports stars like […]
First off, let me apologize for not writing a column for the last two weeks. I’ve been extremely busy working on the rest of the newspaper and our upcoming Progress 2010 edition. I realized the other day that it’s terribly selfish of me not to write a column because when I don’t express my lively […]
From bingo and line-dancing to euchre and ceramics, local senior citizens engage in a variety of recreational activities at the Oxford Veterans Memorial Civic Center. Now, they’ll have one more to enjoy ? aquatic sports. Sometime Monday, a fire suppression system pipe burst at the 28 N. Washington St. facility, flooding the first and second […]